Institute Calendar
November 2009
Ongoing
Ongoing
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11/10
12:00pm
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11/3
5:00pm
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Sunday, November 1st, 2009
12:00pm
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4:30pm
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3:30pm
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5:30pm
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Tea Talk
Timing the Starburst AGN-Connection
Vivienne Wild,
Institut d'astrophysique de Paris,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Biophysics Lecture
What Biology Can Do for Physics: Landscapes in Physics and Biology
Robert H. Austin,
professor of physics,
Princeton University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar
How Transcription Factors Program Chromatin during Hematopoietic Development: Lessons from Myeloid-specific Genes
Constanze Bonifer,
Division of Experimental Haematology,
University of Leeds, UK,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geological and Planetary Sciences Seminar
Relating Impact Crater Shape to Target Properties: New Insights from MER and HiRISE
Wesley Andrés Watters,
postdoctoral research associate in astronomy,
Cornell University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Electrochemistry Seminar
Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Improving Methods for Heparin Characterization
Cynthia K. Larive,
professor of chemistry,
UC Riverside,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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KNI-MDL Seminar
Inducing Limited Transparency in Tissues by Time-Reversing Light
Changhuei Yang,
associate professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering,
Caltech,
Peter Willis,
senior engineer,
JPL,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Seminar
Information Percolation in Segmented Markets
Gustavo Manso,
assistant professor of finance,
MIT Sloan School of Management,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William Bennett Munro Memorial Seminar
Coherence, Causation, and Confirmation: How the Causal Relations between Hypothesis and Evidence Matter
Richard Scheines,
professor of philosophy,
Machine Learning Department and Human-Computer Interaction Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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4:15pm
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5:00pm
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Condensed Matter Physics Seminar
Random Quantum Satisfiability: Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Optimization
Chris Laumann,
graduate student in theoretical physics,
Princeton University,
4:15pm
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5:15pm
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High Energy Physics Seminar
CDF in Its Prime: Searches for b', Z' and Friends
Daniel Whiteson,
UC Irvine,
8:30pm
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9:30pm
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9:30pm
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10:30pm
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
9:30am
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11:30am
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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4:00pm
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3:00pm
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4:00pm
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Institute for Quantum Information Seminar
Categorically Isolating Quantum Properties
Chris Heunen,
graduate student,
University of Oxford,
3:30pm
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5:00pm
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Carnegie Observatories Colloquium
Carnegie Observatories, 813 Santa Barbara St., William T. Golden Auditorium
The Nature of the ISM in Star-forming galaxies at z~2~3: Surprising New Results
Alice Shapley,
associate professor of astronomy,
UCLA,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Chemical Physics Seminar
The Liquid Vapor Interface of Aqueous Solutions: Composition, Chemistry, and Acid/Base Properties
John C. Hemminger,
professor of chemistry,
UC Irvine,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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General Biology Seminar—cancelled
Karl Deisseroth,
associate professor of bioengineering,
Stanford University,
7:30pm
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10:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:00pm
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Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
10:00am
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11:00am
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10:00am
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12:00pm
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12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Mathematical Physics Seminar
Relaxation Enhancement by Fluid Flow and Quantum Dynamics
Alexander Kiselev,
professor of mathematics,
the University of Wisconsin, Madison,
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Astronomy Colloquium
Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets
Andy Gould,
professor of mathematical and physical sciences,
Ohio State University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Environmental Science and Engineering Seminar
Prepare Immediately for Whatever Happens Next: "Rapid" Change at Ice Sheet Marine Margins
Christina Hulbe,
assistant professor of geology,
Portland State Universiy,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Norman Davidson Lecture
Norman Davidson Lecture: "Manipulating Quorum Sensing to Control Bacterial Pathogenicity"
Bonnie Bassler,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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8:00pm
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7:30pm
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9:30pm
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8:30pm
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9:30pm
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Thursday, November 5th, 2009
8:00am
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11/7
1:00pm
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8:00am
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11/7
1:00pm
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9:00am
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10:00am
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ESE & Society Discussion Group
Dumpster Diving at Caltech
John Onderdonk,
manager,
Sustainability Programs,
Caltech,
10:00am
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1:00pm
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4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Brain, Mind, and Society Seminar
Heterogeneous Reward Signals in Prefrontal Cortex
Jonathan Wallis,
assistant professor of psychology,
UC Berkeley ,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Geology Club Seminar
Water in Nominally Anhydrous Minerals: Recent Research at Caltech
Jed Mosenfelder,
research scientist,
Geological and Planetary Sciences,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Organic Chemistry Seminar
New Approaches to Redox Catalysis
Teshik P. Yoon,
professor of chemistry,
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Physics Research Conference
Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria
Bonnie Bassler,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Squibb Professor of Molecular Biology,
Princeton University,
7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
8:00am
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7:00pm
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10:00am
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11:00am
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11:00am
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12:00pm
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High Energy Theory Seminar
Perturbative Spectra in Gauge Theories with Gravity Duals at Four Loops and Beyond
Christoph Sieg,
Neils Bohr Institute,
12:00pm
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1:30pm
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1:00pm
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2:00pm
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2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Computation and Neural Systems Seminar
Revealing Network Neural Mechanism of Adaptive Social Behavior
Naotaka Fujii,
Laboratory for Adaptive Intelligence & BTCC Interactive Brain Communication Unit,
BSI, RIKEN,
2:00pm
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3:00pm
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Special Seminar in Applied and Computational Mathematics
Enriched Boundary Elements for Fracture Mechanics and Wave Scattering
2:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Tima Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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4:00pm
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GALCIT Colloquium
The Mechanics of the Cytoskeleton and Cell Adhesions
Robert McMeeking,
professor of mechanical engineering,
UC Santa Barbara,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Applied Physics Seminar
Mesoscopic Cavity QED with a Single Quantum Dot
Martin Winger,
Institute of Quantum Electronics,
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ),
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Dix Seismo Lab Seminar
Fault Slip Variations, Fault Geometrical Complexity, and Constraining Ground Motions Using LiDAR Data
Ken Hudnut,
geophysicist,
United States Geological Survey,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Inorganic-Organometallics Seminar
Ln(AlMe4)3—Gofer Alkyls in Disguise
Melanie Zimmermann,
visitor in chemistry,
Caltech,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Mixed-Signal, RF, and Microwave Seminar
Electronics for High Performance Inertial Sensors
Bernhard E. Boser,
professor,
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center,
UC Berkeley,
4:15pm
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6:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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6:00pm
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10:00pm
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7:00pm
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9:00pm
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Saturday, November 7th, 2009
11:00am
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2:00pm
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12:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Habib Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography
3:00pm
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6:00pm
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Wedding Photography on Campus: Solorzano Wedding
Sites designated as approved for commercial still photography